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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS SANDERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO ELIZA SANDERS, OF SAME PLACE.

SUPPORTER FOR BELTS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 403,220, dated May 14, 1889.

Application filed March 13, 1889. Serial No. 303,123. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs SANDERS, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Belt-Support, of which the followin g is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a belt-support, and has for its object to provide a device capable of expeditious attachment to or detachment from a pair of trousers at the waistband of the same, which device is capable of passing over a belt, when worn in connection with the trousers, to prevent the former from sliding upward above the waistband.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a partial front elevation. of a pair of trousers and a belt illustrating the application of the device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device from the inner face; and Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section through the same.

It is well known that when a belt is worn to support a pair of trousers the tendency of the belt is to work upward from the waist band. The movement ofthe belt upon the trousers has heretofore been limited by sewin g thereto a loop or loops, through Which the belt is made to pass. These loops, when forming an integral portion of the trousers, are unsightly, and are of no use when the belt is not worn. It is the prime object of the present invention to provide a substitute for the loop or loops, which may be expeditiously and conveniently attached to the trousers when the belt is to be worn and detached therefrom as readily when the belt is dispensed with.

To that end the device consists of a body, 10, made of a strip of suitable material-such as leather, webbing, or other fabric-which body may be made of any desired length to accommodate any width of belt. At the upper end of the body 10 a hook, 11, is secured, the inner end of which hook is preferably bent inward upon itself to incline in the direction of the bow, as shown at 12 in Figs. 2 and 3, and the said inclined end of the hook is also, preferably, rectangular in general contour and serrated, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

To the lower end of the body 10 a second hook, 13, of ordinary construction, is attached. The hooks 11 and 13 are usually secured to the inner face of the body, and the means of attachment employed preferably consists of an eyelet, 14,, passed through a suitable aperture in the shank of the hooks and through the body, the outer edges of the said eyelets being upset. I desire it, however, to be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to any particular shape of hook in cross-section nor to any particular means of securing the hooks to the body.

In operation, the belt 15 having been placed in position upon the trousers 16, two, four, or more of the supporting devices are applied in the following manner: The-upper hook, 11, is passed over the waistband of the trousers until the inclined end thereof engages with the inner face of the waistband. The lower hook, 13, is then introduced into the outer surface of the trousers and the device is applied.

It will be observed that any upward movement of the belt will only tend to force the end of the hook 11 more securely into the waistband, and that any tension that may be exerted upon the device is borne by the lower hook, 13. By this means I provide a device of simple and economical construction and capable of use at any moment to form guideloops for a belt.

.I desire it to be understood that if in practice it is found advisable the device may be made of a single piece of metal, the hooks constituting an integral portion of the body.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an improved article of manufacture, a belt-support for waistbands, consisting in a flexible strip having hooks 11 and 13 on its ends extending toward each on the inner side of the strip, the lower extremity or free end of the upper hook being bent upward, as at 12, to engage the inner side of a waistband and prevent the upper hook from moving upwardly.

LOUIS SANDERS.

Witnesses:

J. F. AoKER, Jr, O. SEDGWICK. 

